Position Location: Hybrid - Phoenix, AZ (preference); Pittsburgh, PA; Cleveland, OH; Dallas, TX; or Birmingham, AL

Job Summary:

Join our team as an Infrastructure and Platform Solutions Architect, where you will play a crucial role in mitigating risk and reducing costs within the bank. Working under the office of the CTO, you will collaborate with Solution Architects in the business MIS teams to design and deliver solutions aligned with approved delivery patterns and reference architectures. Your expertise will be essential in engineering infrastructure and platform solutions that meet business requirements while identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with Solution Architects to design and deliver solutions aligned with approved delivery patterns.

- Work with enterprise architecture and engineering teams to engineer infrastructure solutions aligned with business MIS team requirements.

- Consult, co-create, and document architecture designs meeting business and enterprise needs.

- Identify, document, and recommend improvements to proposed designs.

- Present recommendations, tradeoffs, and opportunities for architecture enhancement to senior leadership.

Skills:

- Advanced & Experienced solution architecture

- Infrastructure engineering

- VMware ESX

- Converged Hyperconverged infrastructure

- Storage technologies

- Application integration technologies (Kafka, message queuing)

- Kubernetes

- Modern microservice development

- Service Bridge

- API Gateways and Management

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

- ITIL Certification is a plus

- TOGAF Certification is a plus

Exciting Job Opportunity:

This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of infrastructure and platform architecture within a dynamic environment. If you are a seasoned Solutions Architect with a passion for driving innovation and aligning technology solutions with business needs, this position is perfect for you. Join us in shaping the future of our technology landscape while making a significant impact on risk mitigation and cost reduction initiatives.

**This is a contract role with the right to hire if a need becomes available. Manager will only look at candidates who are open to converting to a full time PNC employee. PNC will not sponsor work visas if the decision is made to hire the contingent worker.**